{"id":224,"date":"2007-02-16T22:30:32","date_gmt":"2007-02-17T03:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.animelondon.ca\/blog\/?p=224"},"modified":"2007-10-08T10:22:59","modified_gmt":"2007-10-08T15:22:59","slug":"new-to-me-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animelondon.ca\/blog\/2007\/02\/16\/new-to-me-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"New to me &#8230; Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s seems like a friend is saying that dead laptops have been finding their way into my home. The first one was a Sharp P150 which had little function since it&#8217;s so under powered. The second was Toshiba Satallite Pro 430 with no power, no memory, hard drive about to die, hinges gone, broken keyboard and mouse pad. I didn&#8217;t even want to think of what condition the battery was in .. if it even could hold a charge. Sigh.<\/p>\n<p>I finally got tired of tripping over it and just wondering &#8216;does it work.&#8217; The previous owner didn&#8217;t want to put money into it unless it worked. The only way to find out if it works was to put money into it. A catch 22 which ended when I announced that the parts couldn&#8217;t be used for other computers and the hard drive making loud banging noises when tested outside the system using a cheater.<\/p>\n<p><em>It&#8217;s Yours. <\/em>he said. Oh yea.<\/p>\n<p>A month had passed and I didn&#8217;t really want to spend the time nor money fixing a doomed project. After failing to find a suitable power supply with friends, I first got a plug for the AC that fit. I tried once more at local surplus place and they had a AC adptor close to specs. The question&#8230;. Would several hours of making the AC adaptor work mean the laptop will work.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.animelondon.ca\/tmp\/laptop2.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">The answer is YES!<\/p>\n<p>Many things are still wrong about it. The broken key and mouse, the broken hinges which cause the LCD panel to flop suddenly. The hard drive is still dying. I&#8217;m tempted to change the drive but haven&#8217;t decided on OS.<\/p>\n<p>What is displayed is DSL or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.damnsmalllinux.org\/\">DamnSmallLinux<\/a> which is designed to run on old laptops and only takes up 50 megs of space on CD. I have reinstalled to current version at this time of version 3.2 which is okay it&#8217;s a question if I will keep this OS. It&#8217;s free. It doesn&#8217;t take in all the features of the laptop.<\/p>\n<p>With any luck, I should have it up and running in time for AnimeNorth which will allow me edit and upload pictures nightly each day of the con. A firewire card and special program will allow me to take timelapse video.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s seems like a friend is saying that dead laptops have been finding their way into my home. The first one was a Sharp P150 which had little function since it&#8217;s so under powered. The second was Toshiba Satallite Pro &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animelondon.ca\/blog\/2007\/02\/16\/new-to-me-part-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animelondon.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animelondon.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animelondon.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animelondon.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animelondon.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.animelondon.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animelondon.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animelondon.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animelondon.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}